Topics of Concern

Representative Themes

Barriers/Challenges to Prevention of Childhood Obesity

・Lack of knowledge about the prevention of childhood obesity during early childhood

・Caregivers’ perceptions of parents’ attitudes toward children’s lifestyles and discipline for their children

・Insufficient training of providers on health promotion topics

・Lack of communication with parents and child care providers by health and medical professionals

・Lack of communication between caregivers and parents about healthy lifestyles for children

Potentially Successful Strategies for Prevention of Childhood Obesity

・Measures to predict future changes in the children’s current body size

・Techniques to determine whether the children’s body mass could predict the onset of illness in the future.

・Free web sites that parents can access to check their children’s body size and predicted future build

・Experiences such as growing vegetables to interest children in healthy foods and food preparation

・Family-based programs to make learning about health a pleasure

・Cooperation between child care providers and public health nurses for health promotion and prevention of childhood obesity